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        4. This year, the center honored Gloria Gilbert Stoga, founder of Puppies Behind Bars, with the Brooke Astor Award, "for her significant.
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          When Gloria Gilbert Stoga started Puppies Behind Bars (PBB) in , few believed a program allowing inmates to raise guide dogs would work. But now, four years later, the results have changed minds.

          The program is not only turning out well-loved, well-trained guide dogs, it's also having a positive effect on its inmate puppy-raisers.

          "Are we raising guide dogs? Yes. Is that the first and foremost thing we are doing?

          Gloria Gilbert Stoga founded the program 25 years ago after witnessing a similar program in Florida.

          Yes, however, these are people who are being given an opportunity to learn important basic life lessons, and they're learning via these dogs." - Gloria Gilbert Stoga, PBB founder

          Surprising as it may seem, for most of her life Gloria Gilbert Stoga had little to no faith in prison rehabilitation programs.

          A political conservative, Stoga was working for New York Mayor Rudolph Guiliani when she learned of two programs, one in Florida and one in Ohio, that were utilizing inmates to raise puppies for eventual guide dog work. After several months of research, she quit her job w